[thelist] a malicious site?

Steven Streight steven.streight at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 14:04:12 CST 2006


Yes, Joel that is the exact same prompt that I got. Weird, huh?

On 11/27/06, Steven Streight <steven.streight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I did not click on anything at the site. I got the prompt, using Firefox,
> when I arrived at the site. Since this was highly irregular, I bailed out
> immediately. I never install plug-ins either. Any site that must be viewed
> and interacted with via special plug-ins is a very stupid and poorly
> designed site.
>
> I agree with Joel: if it smells funny, don't eat it.
>
> On 11/27/06, Conyers, Dwayne <dwayne.conyers at hp.com > wrote:
> >
> > Joel D Canfield explained:
> >
> > > this is the prompt I got:
> > >
> > >     http://www.joeldcanfield.com/images/aniboom.gif
> > >
> > > no thanks.
> >
> >
> > These days, I have all kinds of anti-virus, anti-spy ware, anti-pest
> > software running... But I also have heard that there is a web site out
> > there that helps protect you from malicious sites.  I saw it ONCE while
> > googling some song lyrics and Google warned me against that site.  But I
> >
> > agree... discretion is the better part of valor.
> >
> >
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> > I made magic once.  Now, the sofa is gone.
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> >
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